Fred Toye

Frederick E. O. Toye (born September 26, 1967) is an American television director and executive producer. Toye began his career as a production assistant for five years and an editor for 15 years, before becoming a television director. He is a frequent collaborator of J. J. Abrams. He has directed, edited, and produced several episodes of the ABC series Alias, as well as serving as a producer and director on the Fox science fiction series Fringe. In 2024, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for his work on the first season of the FX series Shōgun.

He has also directed episodes of Lost, Ghost Whisperer, Brothers & Sisters, The 4400, Moonlight, V, CSI: NY, Chuck, The Good Wife, Falling Skies, Person of Interest, Fallout and other series.

Early life and education Toye attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated with a B.A. He is a great-grandson of the opera singer Marguerite Namara.

Career Toye made the move into television directing after working for five years as a production assistant and a decade as an editor. This background in the editing room gave him a solid sense of how to tell a clear story, which helped considerably in his work on such complex series as Chuck (NBC 2007–12) and Fringe (Fox 2008–13). Los Angeles native Toye got his first screen credit working as a production assistant on Billy Crystal's 1989 HBO special Midnight Train to Moscow, before moving into visual effects on films like The Addams Family (1991) and then working as an assistant editor on hit films such as Forrest Gump (1994) and Men in Black (1997).

As a TV director, Toye cut his teeth on network TV action and sci-fi thrillers like Alias, Lost, and Fringe and has also worked on character-rich dramas such as The Good Wife. That experience running the gamut between drama genres served Toye well in recent years, directing episodes of genre series like Westworld, Snowpiercer, Watchmen and The Walking Dead. In 2024, his prolific output included The Boys and Fallout. The same year, Toye received acclaim for his work on Shōgun, helming four episodes of the Emmy-winning FX drama series, including season finale "A Dream of a Dream." The season's penultimate episode, "Crimson Sky," earned Toye his first-ever Emmy for outstanding directing, which was also Toye's first-ever career nomination in the category. Toye followed it up by directing the pilot episode of Prime Video’s prequel series The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, starring Chris Pratt and Taylor Kitsch. He set to direct the opening episodes of the Prime Video series Bloodaxe and God of War.

Television work 11.22.63 episode 1.02 "The Kill Floor" episode 1.04 "The Eyes of Texas" The 4400 episode 3.11 "The Gospel According to Collier" Alias episode 4.13 "Tuesday" episode 5.02 "...1..." episode 5.04 "Mockingbird" episode 5.13 "30 Seconds" episode 5.16 "Reprisal" Almost Human episode 1.12 "Beholder" American Gods episode 2.02 "The Begulling Man" Believe episode 1.12 "Second Chance" The Boys episode 1.04 "The Female of the Species" episode 2.04 "Nothing Like It in the World" episode 4.03 "We'll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here" BrainDead episode 1.06 "Notes Toward a Post-Reagan Theory of Party Alliance, Tribalism, and Loyalty: Past as Prologue" episode 1.07 "The Power of Euphemism: How Torture Became a Matter of Debate in American Politics" Brothers & Sisters episode 1.06 "For the Children" episode 1.10 "Light the Lights" Chuck episode 1.12 "Chuck Versus the Undercover Lover" episode 3.05 "Chuck Versus the First Class" episode 3.15 "Chuck Versus the Role Models" episode 4.17 "Chuck Versus the First Bank of Evil" episode 5.09 "Chuck Versus the Kept Man" CSI: Cyber episode 2.13 "The Walking Dead" CSI: NY episode 5.02 "Page Turner" episode 7.15 "Vigilante" episode 8.01 "Indelible" Designated Survivor episode 1.07 "The Traitor" episode 1.10 "The Oath" episode 1.14 "Commander-in-Chief" episode 1.17 "The Ninth Seat" episode 1.21 "Brace for Impact" episode 2.02 "Sting of the Tail" Evil episode 1.09 "Exorcism Part 2" Falling Skies episode 1.04 "Grace" episode 1.05 "Silent Kill" Fallout episode 1.06 "The Trap" episode 1.07 "The Radio" episode 2.01 "The Innovator" episode 2.02 "The Golden Rule" episode 2.08 "The Strip" Fringe episode 1.03 "The Ghost Network" episode 1.09 "The Dreamscape" episode 1.11 "Bound" episode 1.15 "Inner Child" episode 1.19 "The Road Not Taken" episode 2.11 "Unearthed" episode 3.15 "Subject 13" episode 4.16 "Nothing As It Seems" Ghost Whisperer episode 2.04 "The Ghost Within" episode 2.18 "Children of Ghosts" episode 3.07 "Unhappy Medium" episode 3.09 "All Ghosts Lead to Grandview" episode 3.14 "The Gravesitter" The Good Fight episode 2.07 "Day 450" episode 3.02 "The One Inspired by Roy Cohn" The Good Wife episode 1.22 "Hybristophilia" episode 2.20 "Foreign Affairs" episode 3.04 "Feeding the Rat" episode 3.13 "Bitcoin for Dummies" episode 3.14 "Another Ham Sandwich" episode 4.05 "Waiting for the Knock" episode 4.19 "The Wheels of Justice" episode 5.07 "The Next Week" episode 6.05 "Shiny Objects" Hawaii Five-0 episode 1.11 "Palekaiko" episode 2.19 "Kalele" episode 3.02 "Kanalua" Invasion episode 1.16 "The Fittest" Lost episode 3.18 "D.O.C." Lost in Space episode 3.01 "Three Little Birds" The Man in the High Castle episode 4.08 "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" Melrose Place episode 1.04 "Vine" Miami Medical episode 1.12 "Down to the Bone" Moonlight episode 1.02 "Out of the Past" episode 1.04 "Fever" episode 1.16 "Sonata" Mrs. Davis episode 1.07 "Great Gatsby 2001: A Space Odyssey" NCIS: New Orleans episode 2.13 "Undocumented" Person of Interest episode 1.07 "Witness" episode 1.21 "Many Happy Returns" episode 2.07 "Critical" episode 2.15 "Booked Solid" episode 3.02 "Nothing to Hide" episode 3.09 "The Crossing" episode 3.21 "Beta" episode 4.03 "Wingman" episode 4.16 "Blunt" episode 4.21 "Asylum" episode 5.10 "The Day the World Went Away" Revolution episode 1.10 "Nobody's Fault But Mine" episode 1.19 "Children of Men" episode 2.05 "One Riot, One Ranger" episode 2.17 "Why We Fight" Rizzoli & Isles episode 2.09 "Gone Daddy Gone" episode 3.07 "Crazy for You" See episode 1.07 "The Lavender Road" Shōgun episode 1.04 "The Eightfold Fence" episode 1.05 "Broken to the Fist" episode 1.09 "Crimson Sky" episode 1.10 "A Dream of a Dream" Snowpiercer episode 1.04 "Without Their Maker" episode 1.05 "Justice Never Boarded" Stalker episode 1.08 "Skin" episode 1.18 "The Woods" The Terminal List episode 1.04 "Detachment" episode 1.07 "Extinction" The Terminal List: Dark Wolf episode 1.01 "Inherent Resolve" episode 1.02 "The Audition" The Terror episode 2.09 "Come and Get Me: episode 2.10 "Into the Afterlife" Truth Be Told episode 2.07 "Lanterman-Petris-Short" episode 3.07 "The Luxury in Self-Reproach" episode 3.08 "Darkness Steals the Glory of Light" Undercovers episode 1.09 "A Night to Forget" V episode 1.03 "A Bright New Day" episode 1.09 "Heretic's Fork" Vegas episode 1.13 "Road Trip" The Walking Dead episode 11.03 "Hunted" episode 11.04 "Rendition" Watchmen episode 1.09 "See How They Fly" Westworld episode 1.06 "The Adversary" episode 1.07 "Trompe L'Oeil" episode 2.10 "The Passenger"